This is an analysis of the poem Vergänglichkeit that begins with:
Vom Berge schaut hinaus ins tiefe Schweigen
Der mondbeseelten schönen Sommernacht...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXaa XXXXbb XaXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111110 110001100 110101000 101111010 110100 1101100 100111101 11110011 110110100 101010110 11000100 1001111 110011000 100110111 10010101000 110000111 11110111 11010101 11100101010 1001101101 1111010100 111001110 11010101 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; auch, der are repeated.
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